# Alfred Cross

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{{Short description|British architect (1858–1932)}}
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thumb|right|Alfred William Stephens Cross
'''Alfred William Stephens Cross''' (1858–1932)<ref name=Gray1986 >{{citation | last1=Gray | first1=Alexander Stuart | year=1986 | title=Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary | last2=Breach | first2=Jean | last3=Breach | first3=Nicholas | publisher=University of Iowa Press | isbn=978-0-87745-136-5  | page=157 }}</ref> was a British architect.

From 1889 to 1899 he was in partnership with [Henry Spalding](/source/Henry_Spalding_(architect)) as Spalding and Cross, taking part in many competitions for building design. Cross and his son (Kenneth Mervyn Baskerville Cross, 1890–1968) became specialised in designs for [public bath](/source/public_bath)s.

==Designs==
[[File:Dulwich Baths 1896.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Photo taken in 1896 of [Dulwich Public Baths](/source/Dulwich_Baths) (now Dulwich Leisure Centre).]]
thumb|220px|right|Illustration from ''Public Baths and Wash Houses'' (1906) showing the ideal laundry layout in a public wash house.

;Public Baths
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*[Dulwich Baths](/source/Dulwich_Baths) 1890 (open 1891)<ref name=Gordon2009 >{{harvnb|Gordon|Inglis|2009|p=86}}</ref>
*[Hampstead Baths](/source/Hampstead_Baths) 1891
*[Camberwell Baths](/source/Camberwell_Baths) 1892
*Coventry Baths 1890s-1966<ref group=n>Coventry Baths were damaged during the blitz of 1940 and demolished in 1966. The only remaining evidence of the building can be found in the car park opposite the current [http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-466553-coventry-central-baths-original-part-inc Coventry Central Baths] on Fairfax Street (opened in 1966), which has a small brick block which housed the filtration tanks {{harv|Gordon|Inglis|2009|p=240}}.</ref><ref name=LocalHistory1994/>
*[Haggerston Baths](/source/Haggerston_Baths), Hackney 1904<ref>{{harvnb|Gordon|Inglis|2009|p=126}}</ref>
*[Marshall Street Baths](/source/Marshall_Street_Baths) (or Westminster Baths) 1931<ref name=Hibbert2008 >{{citation | last1=Hibbert | first1=Christopher | year=2008 | title=The London encyclopaedia | last2=Weinreb | first2=Ben | edition=3 | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5  | page=531 }}</ref>
*[Public Baths Finsbury](/source/Ironmonger_Row_Baths) 1931
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*[Public Baths Clyde Street Deptford](/source/Public_Baths_Clyde_Street_Deptford)
*[Hoxton Baths](/source/Hoxton)<ref name=LocalHistory1994/>
*[Seymour Place Baths](/source/Seymour_Place_Baths) Marylebone
*[Walthamstow Baths](/source/Walthamstow_Baths)<ref name=LocalHistory1994 >{{citation | author1=Standing Conference for Local History | year=1994 | title=The Local historian, Volumes 24-25 | publisher=National Council of Social Service.  | page=148 }}</ref><ref name=Bird1993 >{{citation | last=Bird | first=Polly | year=1993 | title=Making a splash: the history of Dulwich baths | publisher=Spencer Mills | isbn=978-0-9521637-0-1  | page=11 }}</ref>
*[Wandsworth Baths](/source/Wandsworth_Baths)<ref name=LocalHistory1994/><ref name=Bird1993/>
*Additions to St John's College Cambridge<ref group=n>Additions included 8 slipper baths, 16 Lassar Baths (showers) with changing cubicles and a boiler house.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Cross|Cross|1930|p=28 (fig.8)}}</ref>
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;Other works
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*[Almshouses at Wood Green](/source/Almshouses_at_Wood_Green)
*Remodelling of [Stanton Drew Church](/source/Stanton_Drew_Church) 1881
*Restoration of [Market Cross, Cheddar](/source/Market_Cross%2C_Cheddar)
*The Vicarage Easton-in-Gordano 1885
*Glendale Clevedon 1887<ref name=Gray1986/>
*Two hospitals in the West of England
*Finalist in the London County Hall Competition 1908
*Headquarters 17th Rifle Volunteers Camden Town 1890
*Mission Premises Kentish Town 1891
*Congregational Church and School Hall Finchley Road 1891
*Church West Hampstead
*Church Harlesden
*Artisans’ Dwellings Manchester
*Schools at  Cricklewood, Hendon, New Barnet and West Hampstead
*[Municipal College of Technology, Manchester](/source/University_of_Manchester)<ref name=Schofield2009 >{{citation | last=Schofield | first=Jonathan | year=2009 | title=Manchester: then and now | publisher=Anova Books | isbn=978-1-906388-36-2  | page=55 }}</ref>
*[Gosport Free Library](/source/Gosport_Free_Library) 1900
*Portsmouth Technical Institute 1900
*Municipal Dye House Manchester 1903 ( part of the Municipal Technical School )
*Merchant Venturers’ Technical College Bristol<ref name=CS118540539 >{{cite news |title=Bristol Merchant Venturers' School |date=27 July 1885 |page=7 |newspaper=The Times}}</ref>
*[https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/art/about-us/edward-davies/ Edward Davies Memorial Chemistry Laboratories], [Aberystwyth University](/source/Aberystwyth_University) 1905<ref name=Gray1986/>
*Restoration of [Shoreditch Town Hall](/source/Shoreditch_Town_Hall) 1906
*Schools at Finchley, Poplar, Gospel Oak and Kentish Town
*[Public Library Deptford](/source/Public_Library_Deptford)
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==Publications==
*{{citation |last=Cross |first=Alfred W S |title=History of architecture |publisher=London, International Correspondence Schools |series=I.C.S. reference library |oclc=7067813}}
*{{citation | last=Cross | first=Alfred William Stephens | year=1906 | title=Public baths and wash-houses: a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting, having special regard to the acts arranging for their provision, with chapters on Turkish, Russian, and other special baths, public laundries, engineering, heating, water supply, etc | publisher=Batsford }}
*{{citation |last=Cross |first=Alfred W S |year=1910 |title=The crowning quality of architecture |publisher=Cooper, Wettern & Co. |oclc=80997438}}
*{{citation |last=Cross |first=Alfred W S |year=1930 |title=Modern public baths and wash-houses : [illust.] |last2=Cross |first2=Kenneth M B |publisher=London |oclc=220978759}}

== See also ==
*[Oskar Lassar](/source/Oskar_Lassar)

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Sources ==
*{{citation | last1=Gordon | first1=Ian | year=2009 | title=Great Lengths: The historic indoor swimming pools of Britain | last2=Inglis | first2=Simon | publisher=English Heritage | isbn=978-1-905624-52-2}}

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